An Institutional Model of Transboundary Watershed Management Toward Sustainable Development

Abstract: The objective of
this study were to evaluate the institutional of watershed management in border
area of Indonesia and Timor-Leste, and to design a model of transboundary
watershed management institution for Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Weighting of internal and external factors
method was used to evaluate the institutional transboundary watershed
management, while analytical hierarchy process was used to compute the
institutional model of transboundary watershed management. The internal factors
consists of: the commitment of the stakeholder in watershed management,
development priorities at border area, the limited institutional cooperation,
the land use changes. The external factors
are: international environmental agenda on development country,
international conferences that supported the countries collaboration toward
sustainable development achievement, supporting culture in forest and water
resources protection, slash and burn cultivation activities, conflicts, lack of
ecological. The result showed that
weighting of internal and external
factors on quadrant III is alternaltive institutional model of transboundary
watershed management. The priority
alternatives institutional model and also road map for sustainable development
are collaboration agreement of transboundary management, transboundary
watershed forum, and autonomous transboundary watershed management. The
alternatives institutional has relation with the development phase, condition of local community and environment.